Lethe
noun
a river in Hades whose water caused forgetfulness of the past in those who drank of it.
Lethean
-
a word derived from
Lethe.
Example Sentences
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It's less a lethal than a Lethean weapon, ie something resembling the river Lethe's mind-numbing waters which induce eternal forgetfulness of everything but better films on the same subject.
From The Guardian ● May 22, 2010
Sweet, after sting and bitter kiss of sea-water, The pale Lethean wine within thy chalices!
From The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke by Rupert Brooke
O Echo, Echo, on some other day, From isles Lethean, sigh to us—O sigh!
From Keats: Poems Published in 1820 by M. (Margaret) Robertson
As in Virgil's Elysian fields a glimpse is afforded into the dark philosophy of human existence, and we see the Lethean bank crowded with spirits, who taste and become prepared to live again—so here.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 by Various
Her ministers had a sweet Lethean draught with which to lull the first clamors of awakening life, to quiet the first promptings of individual thought.
From Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) by Julia Ward Howe
